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World bids farewell to 2025, a year of Trump, truces and turmoil
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World bids farewell to 2025, a year of Trump, truces and turmoil
December 30 04:11 PM
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) —New Year's Eve revellers will toast the end of 2025 on Wednesday, waving goodbye to 12 months packed with Trump tariffs, a Ga...
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US targets Iran-Venezuela weapons trade amid military build-up in Caribbean Sea
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December 30 03:46 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – The United States (US) Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Tuesday announced that i...
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Find Me Here ranks #44 on Billboard Hot Gospel Songs Year End chart
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Find Me Here ranks #44 on Billboard Hot Gospel Songs Year End chart
BY KEVIN JACKSON Observer Writer 
December 30 03:40 PM
Trinidadian gospel-reggae singer Sherwin Gardner's 2024 hit Find Me Here (Blessings Find Me) is ranked at #44 on Billboard's Hot Gospel Songs Top 50 Y...
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FNID operations push drug seizures past $1 billion mark
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FNID operations push drug seizures past $1 billion mark
December 30 03:32 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica  — Over $1 billion in illegal drugs has been seized by police since the beginning of the year, according to updates from the  Firear...
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Clean-up of Black River progressing steadily
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Clean-up of Black River progressing steadily
December 30 03:24 PM
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Phase two of the clean-up of Black River in St Elizabeth is now underway, with the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWM...
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Performers cancel concerts at Kennedy center after Trump renaming
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Performers cancel concerts at Kennedy center after Trump renaming
December 30 02:53 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)-A prominent jazz group and a dance company have canceled shows at Washington's premier performing arts center to prote...
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JFF mourns passing of sports journalist Donald Oliver
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JFF mourns passing of sports journalist Donald Oliver
December 30 02:31 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) has expressed condolences to the family and friends of sports broadcaster Donald Oliver, as ...
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No claim that Harding involved in or benefited from alleged SSL fraud — attorney
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No claim that Harding involved in or benefited from alleged SSL fraud — attorney
December 30 02:24 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, the defence attorney for former CEO of Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL) Zachary Harding, is maintaining...
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Protection by the State from the State
August 10, 2010
WE would really like to throw our wholehearted support behind the police's request for the individual who captured the video footage of the policeman ...
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New role for diplomacy worth examining
August 9, 2010
THE issue of an expanded role for diplomats, as highlighted by Sir Ronald Sanders in his column in this week's Agenda, makes interesting reading. Sir ...
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For the fans and the sport, Mr Bolt
August 8, 2010
We find Mr Usain Bolt's loss to the USA's Mr Tyson Gay at the IAAF Diamond League DN Galan meet on Friday distressing, not because we think his physic...
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Application rejected
BY PAUL HENRY Observer staff reporter henryp@jamaicaobserver.com 
August 8, 2010
A panel of three judges today rejected an application to have parts of an affidavit by the Jamaica Redevelopment Foundation CEO Janette Farrows struck...
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Editorial
‘Job description’ for a new Caricom secretary general
August 7, 2010
Mr Edwin Carrington, the secretary general of Caricom, has signalled he will be stepping down after 18 or so years in the job. The appropriate tribute...
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Editorial
The JFF’s decision lacks logic
August 6, 2010
WE were stunned by the apparent mixed signals which emanated from the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) in midweek resulting from an incident involvin...
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Editorial
Advice and best wishes for Ms Blaine
August 5, 2010
WE believe Ms Betty Ann Blaine, a tireless children’s rights advocate, really has the country’s best interest at heart. Her contribution to national l...
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Oh no, Ms Leah Tavares-Finson
August 4, 2010
We were dismayed to read Ms Leah Tavares-Finson's take on Mr Christopher Coke, if only because we expected better from a student of the political scie...
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The pain and anguish of the police commissioner
August 3, 2010
We are told, nay assured, by our all-wise politicians that the conditions which existed on May 23, 2010 that justified the limited State of Emergency,...
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The political lynching of Mr Charlie Rangel
August 2, 2010
SINCE its inception in 2009, the United States Office of Congressional Ethics has investigated 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, prompting...
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The blood thirstiness is returning
August 1, 2010
We can dismiss as nothing significant the killing of two policemen in six days — eight since the start of the year — and the videotaped police killing...
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Why Ms Priya Levers was kicked off the bench
July 31, 2010
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council's 47-page opinion that Ms Priya Levers be removed from the bench of the Grand Court of Cayman for inexcusa...
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Let’s celebrate our rich tradition in sport
July 30, 2010
JAMAICA, despite its obvious deficiencies, has earned total respect and well-deserved admiration from the sporting world ever since its entrance on th...
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Is anybody listening to Col Rocky Meade?
July 29, 2010
According to Colonel Rocky Meade, head of communications at the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), the country needs a State of Emergency in order to deal w...
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Editorial
China is definitely where it’s at
July 28, 2010
For the foreseeable future, we will all be operating in a tri-polar globe dominated by the United States, the European Union and China. China is forec...
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Editorial
We don’t need another closet, Professor Miller
July 27, 2010
THE Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), according to our Monday edition, is planning to recommend that the upcoming law on party and campaign finan...
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The wisdom of the Jamaican people
July 26, 2010
Our political parties have always trumpeted their absolute belief and trust in the wisdom of the Jamaican people. But when that belief was tested, it ...
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Still finding it hard to govern ourselves
July 25, 2010
In eleven days time, we will mark the 48th anniversary of Jamaica's political Independence. Any cursory analysis of how we have managed since 1962 wil...
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Editorial
Where there’s a will…
July 24, 2010
At Friday's close of the 18th biennial meeting of the International Aids Conference in Vienna Austria, its chair, Dr Julio Montaner, pointed out that ...
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Did the ruling JLP outsmart the PNP?
July 24, 2010
There is a view among some Jamaicans that the debacle in parliament, which ended the State of Emergency last week, was the result of clever politickin...
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Sports a saving grace again
July 23, 2010
It's uncanny that just when the country needed a boost on the international stage, especially after the theatrics involving security and politics, and...
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Right on Mr Patrick Casserly
July 22, 2010
Mr Patrick Casserly, the president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Industry and Commerce, makes an important point in yesterday's edition of our sister ...
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World bids farewell to 2025, a year of Trump, truces and turmoil
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World bids farewell to 2025, a year of Trump, truces and turmoil
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SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) —New Year's Eve revellers will toast the end of 2025 on Wednesday, waving goodbye to 12 months packed with Trump tariffs, a Ga...
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US targets Iran-Venezuela weapons trade amid military build-up in Caribbean Sea
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US targets Iran-Venezuela weapons trade amid military build-up in Caribbean Sea
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WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – The United States (US) Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Tuesday announced that i...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Find Me Here ranks #44 on Billboard Hot Gospel Songs Year End chart
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Find Me Here ranks #44 on Billboard Hot Gospel Songs Year End chart
BY KEVIN JACKSON Observer Writer 
December 30, 2025
Trinidadian gospel-reggae singer Sherwin Gardner's 2024 hit Find Me Here (Blessings Find Me) is ranked at #44 on Billboard's Hot Gospel Songs Top 50 Y...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
FNID operations push drug seizures past $1 billion mark
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FNID operations push drug seizures past $1 billion mark
December 30, 2025
KINGSTON, Jamaica  — Over $1 billion in illegal drugs has been seized by police since the beginning of the year, according to updates from the  Firear...
{"jamaica-observer":"Jamaica Observer"}
Clean-up of Black River progressing steadily
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Clean-up of Black River progressing steadily
December 30, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Phase two of the clean-up of Black River in St Elizabeth is now underway, with the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWM...
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